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enWorld War II Cartoonshttps://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/world-war-ii-cartoons
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cartoons from World War II helped explain the war to children and encouraged families to do their part for the war cause.</p>
<p>This video is part of the Price of Freedom learning resources package for use with the <em>Mobilizing Children WWII</em> lesson plan. It was produced to accompany the exhibition <em>The Price of Freedom: Americans at War</em>, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000sysadmin1179 at https://historyexplorer.si.eduThe Scott Family: Life on the WWII Homefronthttps://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/scott-family-life-wwii-homefront
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Through the use of a description of the apartment, an excerpt from Mary Scott's diary, and artifact from the period, students will learn about life on the home front during World War II. The Scotts rented apartment on the first floor of an Ipswich, Massachusetts house became a home front battlefield during World War II. The Scotts are one of the families that lived in the Ipswich, Massachusetts house which is the focus of <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/">Within These Walls</a>, an online exhibition.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000sysadmin1043 at https://historyexplorer.si.eduWorld War IIhttps://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/world-war-ii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Students will learn how Americans joined the Allies to defeat Axis militarism and nationalist expansion. Sixteen million Americans donned uniforms in this section of the online exhibition <em>The Price of Freedom: Americans at War</em>. The millions more who stayed home comprised a vast civilian army, mobilized by the government to support the war effort. The world-wide conflict that led to the emergence of the United States as an economic and military superpower is divided into sections that allow students to focus either on a specific aspect of the war, or the conflict as a whole.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000sysadmin1178 at https://historyexplorer.si.eduWorld War II Posterhttps://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/world-war-ii-poster
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This image, said to be the most popular poster design of World War II, appeared as a billboard in 1941. Carl Paulson created the design under the direction of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc., for a U.S. Treasury Department campaign promoting the widespread public ownership of defense bonds and stamps. To demonstrate the power of advertising while selling bonds, the billboard industry displayed this image of the American flag at more than 30,000 locations in some 18,000 cities and towns across the country in March and April 1942.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000sysadmin1181 at https://historyexplorer.si.edu